Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order

by John Shovlin

A groundbreaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competition

Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a "Second Hundred Years' War." Yet officials on both sides also initiated ententes, free trade schemes, and colonial bargains intended to avert future conflict...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300253567
• ISBN13: 9780300253566
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 8.8"